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Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa

Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa examines the complexities of government and the obstacles facing constitutional democracy in transitional African societies.

The chapters provide a critical, conceptual framework to probe, interpret and understand the dimensions of current and impending challenges to constitutional government on the African continent. The contributors explain why deep inequalities and harsh repression persist in most transitional African countries, despite constitutionally guaranteed rights and the ongoing, practical efforts to expand participation through political liberalisation. The book demonstrates the importance of sustaining public confidence in democracy and provides provocative ideas about how to deal with new, prodigious configurations of power that are stubbornly resisting real institutional change.

Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa will be of interest to scholars of African politics and constitutional democracy.

Okon Akiba is Professor of Comparative and International Politics at York University, Toronto, Canada.

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Edited by Ebenezer Oluwole Oni, Omololu Michael Fagbadebo, and Yagboyaju Dhikru Adewale

Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa

Emerging Trends

Edited by Okon Akiba

Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa

Emerging Trends

Edited by
Okon Akiba

First published 2021

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ISBN: 978-0-367-02330-0 (hbk)

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Contents

Okon Akiba

PART I
Constitutionalism in theory and practice

Okon Akiba

PART II
Constitutional treatment of womens human rights

Asma Abdel Halim

Maria Nassali

MBA Atinga

PART III
Histories of unyielding struggles for freedom

Okon Akiba

Okon Akiba

Maxwell Owusu

Gnter Walzenbach

Okon Akiba is Professor of Comparative and International Politics at York University,Toronto, Canada. He received his doctoral degree in Comparative and International Politics from the University of Toronto. Akiba is the author of Preventive Diplomacy, Security and Human Rights in West Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Constitutionalism and Society in Africa (Routledge, 2017); and Nigerian Foreign Policy toward Africa (Peter Lang, 2000). His other publications on international political economy and multilateral relations have appeared in professional journals such as Futures, Natural Resources Journal, Environmental Conservation, and The Journal of Modern African Studies. Professor Akiba has taught at Ohio University in the USA.

Mba Atinga graduated with an honors bachelor of arts in Sociology from the University of Ghana; earned a masters of arts in Industrial and Labor Relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania; and completed doctoral studies in the Department of International Affairs and Development at Clark Atlanta University in 2008. He continues to do extensive research and write widely on regional economic integration in West Africa, conflict resolution, gender issues in development and small arms proliferation in Africa. Atinga is the Rector at Bogatanga Polytechnic, Ghana.

Asma Abdel Halim is Professor of Legal Rights and Social Justice at the Department of Womens and Gender Studies in the University of Toledo, Ohio; and consults for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has been a practicing lawyer in Sudan, with a bent toward the provision of legal aid and literacy services for women. Halim is the author of Sudanese Women in the United States: The Double Problem of Gender and Culture (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006) plus book chapters, one of which is on womens rights in international law: Gendered Justice: Women and Criminal Law in the Sudan, in Lutz Oette, ed., Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspective for Sudan (Ashgate, 2011). She holds a doctoral degree in Education from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Maria Nassali earned a doctoral degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a graduate degree in Law and Development from Warwick University, United Kingdom. She is currently the chief executive officer of International Governance Alliance (iGA). Nassali also lectures at the School of Law in Makerere University, Kampala. She has written several reports, book chapters, and journal articles, and coauthored a book with Haroub Othman, Toward Political Liberalization in Uganda (Fountain Press, 2012).

Maxwell Owusu

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